Improvement in coffin-handles



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IAMESS RAY, `OF EAST HADDAM, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 100,445, dazed Mal-ch 1, 1870.

l IMPROVEMENT-IN COFFIN-HANDLES.

The Schedule referred bo 1n these Letters Patent making part of the same.

To all whom it may conce/rn:

Be it known that I, J AMEs'S. RAY, of' East Haddam, in the county of Middlesex, and State of Connecticut, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Lifting-Handles for Cofins and other articles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

lclear, and exact description 'of the same, reference .constructed according to the invention.

Figure 2 is a vcentral longitudinal section oi"r the Same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

A is the bar, the exterior of which consists of a tubular casting; and

B B are the arms, consisting of projections cast upon the bar.,

C C are the pivots formed by the extremities of wires C C', which are bent at a right angle, and which pass through the arms intorthe tubular socket, and

which serve to give the necessary strengtlrto-the arms, and to form a strong connection of the pivots with the bar. i

D is a wooden core inserted permanently through the-entire length of the tubular bar, and having the wires C"C inserted into it.l

E E are the caps forming the heads of the screws F F, which are screwed into the ends' of the wooden core D In making the handle, the wooden core is prepared of the proper size, and a littleV longer than its proper length, and holes are bored transversely into it at a suitable distance from its ends for the reception of the pivot wires C C', which are -inserted thereinto a suitable distance, care being taken to bling lthe pivots C C inline with eachother. 0

The mold having been made from a pattern representing the hanarms, and pivots, and with suitable core prints at theY ends of the bar, the core, with the attached pivot wires, is placed in it, and it is then closed. Meltedmetal is then poured into the mold,

'to produce' the tube A and armsB B When the casting has been removed from the mold and finished up, and the ends of the core trimmed oft, the handle is completed by screwing the screws of the caps into the wooden cor The wooden core not only serves to strengthen the vbar and enable it to be made ot' a thinner tube of soft metal, but also forms a strong connection of the alms and pivots by the insertion of the pivot wire, and serves asa means of attaching the caps." It further serves to keep the pivot wires C C' in place in the mold before and :during the casting, and ,to insure the said wires being kept in the center ofthe arms. l

What is here claimed, and desired to be'secured by Letters Pat-ent, is

v'lhe'combination of the tubular casting A, its attached arms B B, the permanent wooden core D, and the pivot wires C' C,'substantially as herein described. JAS. S. RAY. Witnesses:

J.`ATTWooD, Annmvs D. WHEELER. 

